Hemipeplus glabratus Pollock, 1999

Hemipeplus glabratus Pollock, 1999

(Figs 5, 61)

Hemipeplus glabratus Pollock, 1999: 61 , Figs 1F View FIGURE 1 , 4F, 11.

Type Material. Holotype, sex unknown, in NMNH ( Cuba, Cayamas ); not studied, see Pollock (1999) for details. One paratype, male, labeled: ‘ Cayamas 6.[1?] Cuba / EA Schwarz Collector / NMNH / [blue label] PARATYPE Hemipeplus glabratus D.A. Pollock / [pink label] DAPC’, in DAPC (Fig. 5) .

Diagnosis. Hemipeplus glabratus can be distinguished by its lack of temples, moniliform scape, glabrous body, and rufotestaceous color. Hemipeplus glabratus has the following diagnostic features: temples absent; scape moniliform; eyes large (longer than scape + pedicel), wide and convex; pronotum subcordiform with a deep anterior emargination; anterolateral angles produced, broadly rounded; pronotal pad indistinct; posterolateral angles obtusely rounded; pronotal lobe indistinct with faint median notch; elytra more or less flat; scutellar shield subpentagonal, transverse, less than twice as wide as long; color uniformly rufotestaceous and shiny without much vestiture or punctures; distribution: Cuba.

Male Genitalia (Figs 5D–F). (Tegmen length = 0.37 mm (n = 1)) Lobe of basale short and blunt; shoulders very slanted and obtuse, rounded; apicale and basale with distinct suture; parameres weakly sinuate, arcuate at the apices; inner margin of apices axe-shaped; penis longer than tegmen.

Remarks. Hemipeplus glabratus is the only known species in the New World without temples and with a moniliform scape and glabrous body.

Geographical Distribution (Fig. 61). Cuba (Cayería las Cayamas).